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1 Kuna Kazneni zavod Lepoglava
| Issuer | Kazneni zavod Lepoglava |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Brown on cream paper. Central denomination numeral within a concentric guilloche rosette underprint. The institution name KAZNENI ZAVOD is at top, LEPOGLAVA at bottom, with the denomination value 1,00 repeated in each corner. A serial number appears to the right of the central vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Plain white paper with a single circular violet validation stamp applied at centre. The stamp bears the Croatian coat of arms, the inscriptions REPUBLIKA HRVATSKA and LEPOGLAVA KAZNENI ZAVOD, and the numeral 1. |
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Kazneni zavod Lepoglava was a penal institution in northern Croatia — one of the oldest and most notorious in the region — that issued its own internal scrip for use within the prison. These notes functioned as a closed-currency system, allowing inmates to make purchases within the facility while preventing access to ordinary money. Prison-issued scrip of this kind was not unique to Yugoslavia, but surviving examples from specific Croatian institutions are genuinely uncommon in collector holdings.
The stamp served as the primary security and authentication device — a practical choice for an institution without access to sophisticated printing infrastructure.